wraith
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He arrived to find a wraith in her 80s, down to 75 pounds, suffering from multiple cancers that had disfigured her face.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2024
The original Beetlejuice, which starred Michael Keaton as an obnoxious wraith hired to help scare away a house's pretentious inhabitants, was released back in 1988.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2023
This Diana, a pale wraith who clutches at her children like she needs them to keep her tethered, is a bird in a luxurious trap; we see the eating disorders, the mental illness, the misery.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
“In the final series of swift lifts, her foot seemed barely to touch the floor. It was the image that others have never matched, the airborne wraith who seems to fly out of a lithograph.”
From Washington Post ● May 30, 2021
She appears out of the mist silently as a wraith, and despite myself, I jump.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
The protagonists are a couple of paranormal investigators, Red and Antea, who are trying to clear the tormented wraiths out of a haunted settlement.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 11, 2024
"All my energy has been well and truly sucked out of me like I've been kissed by a dementor," Paolo says referring to the soul-consuming wraiths in the Harry Potter stories.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2023
She saw her mother, shrouded in a dark covering of wraiths, bones and melting faces, and felt her overwhelming grief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2023
The tales boil down to the problem of balancing empathy with self-assertion—of both practicing kindness and expressing your own needs, and all while the people around you are behaving like wraiths or aliens.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 17, 2018
“Scholars want to close their eyes to the truth. Ghuls, wraiths, wights, jinn—they’re just stories. Tribal myths. Campfire tales. Such arrogance.”
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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